CVE-2022-4743 — Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime in Simple Directmedia Layer
Severity
7.5HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.0%
top 87.19%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedJan 12
Description
A potential memory leak issue was discovered in SDL2 in GLES_CreateTexture() function in SDL_render_gles.c. The vulnerability allows an attacker to cause a denial of service attack. The vulnerability affects SDL2 v2.0.4 and above. SDL-1.x are not affected.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 3.6
Affected Packages1 packages
Also affects: Enterprise Linux 9.0
Patches
🔴Vulnerability Details
3OSV▶
CVE-2022-4743: A potential memory leak issue was discovered in SDL2 in GLES_CreateTexture() function in SDL_render_gles↗2023-01-12
CVEList▶
CVE-2022-4743: A potential memory leak issue was discovered in SDL2 in GLES_CreateTexture() function in SDL_render_gles↗2023-01-12
GHSA▶
GHSA-94g7-4r7x-4rfv: A potential memory leak issue was discovered in SDL2 in GLES_CreateTexture() function in SDL_render_gles↗2023-01-12
📋Vendor Advisories
3Microsoft▶
A potential memory leak issue was discovered in SDL2 in GLES_CreateTexture() function in SDL_render_gles.c. The vulnerability allows an attacker to cause a denial of service attack. The vulnerability ↗2023-01-10
Debian▶
CVE-2022-4743: libsdl2 - A potential memory leak issue was discovered in SDL2 in GLES_CreateTexture() fun...↗2022